In memoriam Reverend Father Professor Stephan Haering, OSB

The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity mourns the sudden death of Reverend Father Professor Stephan Haering, OSB, holder of the chair of Canon Law at the University of Munich.

Among the many academic and ecclesiastical responsibilities of Professor Haering, who died on 16 November 2020 at the age of only 61, was membership of an ecumenical project group commissioned by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Lutheran World Federation. Just one week before his death, he completed a paper on the question of Martin Luther's excommunication.

In a letter to the abbot of the monastery of Metten, the home abbey of Professor Haering, Cardinal Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, expressed his condolences.